Word: petted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older "baby" dean on the Freshman staff. Henry Chauncey, who won his letters in football and baseball in 1928, handles all scholarship applications for incoming classes and administers the National Scholarships. With a pet machine known as "Chauncey's brain child" on the top floor of University Hall. Dean Chauncey sorts and tabulates data relating to admission records, aptitude tests, scholarship examinations, and college work...
...blue china;" his incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that he went on his knees, kissed Oscar's hand. No one enjoyed more than Ruskin and Pater the story...
...miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already published a book and was watching his chance. It came in the death of Hanno, fat Pope Leo X's pet elephant...
...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...
Lowell House's latest female pet, Rummy, appeared near death yesterday when its owner, Porter Cole '41, fed her too many peanuts. An Indian monkey, Rummy, ate all the peanuts for their salt content...